“Faithless To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.”
– Maya Angelou

“ About all you can do in life is be who you are. Some people will love you for you. Most will love you for what you can do for them, and some won’t like you at all.”
– Rita Mae Brown

“ Be yourself, don’t take anything from anyone, and never let them take you alive.”
– Gerard Way

“ You cannot change what you are, only what you do.”
– Philip Pullman

“ You are you. Now, isn’t that pleasant?”
– Dr. Seuss

“ Art and life really are the same, and both can only be about a spiritual journey, a path towards a re-union with a supreme creator, with god, with the divine; and this is true no matter how unlikely, how strange, how unorthodox, one’s particular life path might appear to one’s self or others at any given moment.”
– Genesis P-Orridge

“ I don’t care what you think about me. I don’t think about you at all.”
– Coco Chanel

“I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet.”
– Mahatma Gandhi

“Always be a first rate version of yourself and not a second rate version of someone else.”
– Judy Garland

“ To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.”
– E.E. Cummings

“ God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.”
– William Shakespeare

“ The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche

“Where’s your will to be weird?”
– Jim Morrison

“ Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.”
– Oscar Wilde

“ If you cannot be a poet, be the poem.”
– David Carradine

“ I find the best way to love someone is not to change them, but instead, help them reveal the greatest version of themselves.”
– Steve Maraboli

“ There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality.”
– Anton Chekhov

“ I will not hide my tastes or aversions. I will so trust that what is deep is holy, that I will do strongly before the sun and moon whatever only rejoices me, and the heart appoints.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ Find out who you are and do it on purpose.”
– Dolly Parton

“ Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another.”
– Homer

“ If you can’t love yourself, how in the hell you gonna love somebody else?”
– RuPaul

“They can’t scare me, if I scare them first.”
– Lady Gaga

“ Don’t be into trends. Don’t make fashion own you, but you decide what you are, what you want to express by the way you dress and the way to live.”
– Gianni Versace

“ our time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.”
– Steve Jobs

“ When I was a child my mother said to me, ‘If you become a soldier, you’ll be a general. If you become a monk, you’ll be the pope.’ Instead I became a painter and wound up as Picasso.”
– Picasso

“ Follow your own star!”
– Dante Alighieri

“ You are not a bad person because you are gay. You are you because you are you and you were meant to be you so be you proudly.”
– Tegan Quin

“ Don’t let others box you into their idea of what they think you should be. A confined identity is a miserable way to exist. Be you and live free. Trust that in living true to yourself, you will attract people that support and love you, just as you are.”
– Jaeda deWalt

“ If you want to be yourself, sometimes you can’t compare the economic benefit with art.”
– Kelly Liang